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On the recordNovember 13, 2007
they say in life you can really judge a person's values by where they put their wealth. Certainly, we all love our families, and we think nothing of spending a lot of money on our children. We all value our health, and we go to great extent to spend whatever is necessary to have a healthy lifestyle and to live on for many years. The President, today, had a chance to demonstrate his values with his veto pen. He had a chance to decide what priorities we should have in America for our future. We sent him a bill called the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill. There was a venerable Congressman from Kentucky named Bill Natcher. He served for many years and distinguished himself as never having missed a rollcall vote in his life. I will not get into that side story, but his responsibility in the House Appropriations Committee was to chair the subcommittee that generated this spending bill, the Labor, Health and Human Services bill, the bill that includes education, health care, medical research--programs that really directly reach the people of America. He called it the people's bill.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the importance of the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill and its impact on American values.

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